John Michael lives in Sydney and is the author of the Googol Boy series of humorous and wacky fiction. John is an English teacher by day, where he does his best to instil a love of literature into the heart of every student who wonders into his classroom – willingly or unwittingly. By night, he transforms into a writer – creating worlds that don't exist and characters who have never lived in order to immerse readers in a world of unpredictable scenarios and madcap imagination. John is married with three sons, a pond full of goldfish and two lorikeets who always appear on his balcony at sunrise to beg for food (they also double up as alarm clocks).